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Family Guy Season 8 Episode 2

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AIRED: Oct 04, 2009

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After finding a lump on her breast, Lois goes to the doctor to get it tested. Thankfully, the tests come back benign. However, the doctor looks into her family medical history and reveals that Lois is actually Jewish. Peter is eager at first for this new change, but after being visited by the ghost of his father, he changes his tune.moreless

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Decent FG ep, but offensive for Jewishs.

7.0

By fsaenz0125, Dec 04, 2011

After finding a lump on her breast, Lois goes to the doctor to get it tested. Thankfully, the tests come back benign. However, the doctor looks into her family medical history and reveals that Lois is actually Jewish. Peter is eager at first for this new change, but after being visited by the ghost of his father, he changes his tune.

This episode was good. Of course, my score is 30 points from a perfect score because of a few reasons: the plot. It was just another Jewish plot (like When you wish a weinstein), but more offensive than the last one. Also, Peter was getting annoying in this episode after he find out Lois being Jewish. I did liked that Peter fall for Kathy Ireland thing. Quagmire's parts (his stuffs on the in porn, and the cutaway when he wanted a spin off). Stewie's part was kinda funny as well. I don't think I had any more funny parts. i wanted a 6 rating, but there were no violence at all (since the newer FG episodes always relied on them), I made my score a little higher. Overall, this episode was good, but offensive to the Jews. 7 out of 10moreless
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By jmbsonic555, Oct 10, 2011

After finding a lump on her breast, Lois goes to the doctor to get it tested. Thankfully, the tests come back benign. However, the doctor looks into her family medical history and reveals that Lois is actually Jewish. Peter is eager at first for this new change, but after being visited by the ghost of his father, he changes his tune.

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7.0

By futuramarama, Aug 02, 2011

What I liked- Francis in ghost form, the ending of the episode where Jesus appears and pretty much says all religion is fake, Carter trying to get Babs and Lois to go after the dollar, and then lying and saying there was salmon, etc.

Eh, not a huge fan of this one. There were some laughs here and there but it did not hold my interest much, and Peter was pretty annoying throughout it. I think it's kind of hypocritical that When You Wish Upon a Weinstein was originally banned, yet I haven't heard anything about this being banned. If you ask me, this episode is much worse then the other Jewish episode. But whatever. Final grade is going to be a C+/B- or so, I think is fairmoreless
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This episode is much worse than "I Dream of Jesus"

1.5

By tigerdude22, Jul 23, 2011

I really like "Family Guy" but this episode was just unacceptable. I was pretty offended due to so much religion in this film. Okay really, Seth MacFarlane, what is it with you using so much religion in "Family Guy". You don't seem to use religion in "American Dad" so why can't you stop with the religion in "Family Guy". I seriously DID NOT laugh once at this episode, not even a chuckle. Okay, I thought "I Dream of Jesus" was mediocre because the religion in that but this episode is much more offensive that "I Dream of Jesus". Lois discovers that she is Jewish which makes her and everybody else Jewish. This episode just made it seem that being Jewish is bad and that you can go to hell just for being a Jewish person instead of a Catholic person. I'm a Catholic person and I find that extremely offensive on how Seth was portraying this whole episode. The only good thing was seeing Peter's father again even though he is a ghost now since Peter's father died in the earlier Family Guy episode. I wish his appearance wasn't so quick though. Overall, a terrible "Family Guy" that is much more offensive than "I Dream of Jesus". 1.5/10moreless
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Quite bad.

6.5

By amazing_race, Jan 11, 2011

This was a really boring episode of a really great show. In this episode, Lois discovers her Jewish heritage, and it becomes a war of the religions in the Griffin household.

I thought the opening scene was great, but once we got past that, the episode was just really dull. I didn't enjoy it at all.

Aside from the religious side of it, there was not much humour in it, so that made it even worse. The only weird scene was when Stewie pulled out Meg's heart. I thought that was just random.

To conclude, a very shocking episode of Family Guy. I truly hope it gets better, because that was ridiculous.moreless
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Seth MacFarlane	Peter / Stewie / Brian / Quagmire / Tom Tucker (and various)
Alex Borstein	Lois (and various)
Seth Green	Chris (and various)
Mila Kunis	Meg (Production Season 2+)
Mike Henry (VI)	Various

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Ben Stein	Rabbi	Guest Star
William Woodson	Superfriends Announcer	Guest Star
Charles Durning	Francis Griffin	Recurring Role
Jeff Bergman	Max Weinstein	Recurring Role
Johnny Brennan	Various	Recurring Role

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- Music in this episode:
  • Suddenly by Billy Ocean
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- Judging from the size of his arm after discovering internet porn, it would appear that Quagmire is left-handed.
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- Brian: That's the problem with this world; Too many people go overboard with what they believe, like Quagmire when he thought He was the one getting the spin-off.
  (Cut-away to Quagmire walking down Spooner Street)
  Quagmire: See you later, bitches! Have fun with your stupid, goddamn Giant Chicken jokes and your Conway Twitty... Hey, why is there a moving truck outside Cleveland's house?
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- (at his first day in Jewish school)
  Teacher: And instead of lasting for one day, the oil in the lamp lasted for eight days. And that is why we celebrate Hanukkah.
  Stewie: Yeah, yeah, yeah...how long before we play "pin the eviction notice on the black guy's door?"
  Teacher: Now, does anyone have any questions?
  Stewie: Yeah, I have a question...what are you gonna do when Jesus comes back and puts a boot up your ass?
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- Meg: Mom, is sodomy illegal if you're Jewish?
  Lois: (sighs) I hope so, Meg. I really do.
  Peter: (smiling) It's not, Lois. It's not.
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- Max: Becoming Jewish doesn't happen overnight. It's a process that involves spiritual education and good works.
  Peter: So what you're saying is that it happens overnight?
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- Lois: Oh my God, so grandma Hebrewberg is actually Jewish?
  Barbara: Yes, when she moved to America, her family changed their name. It was originally Hebrewbergmoneygrabber.
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- Dr. Hartmann: Mrs Griffin, I've got good news! Your test results came back negative. It appears that the lump in your breast is not "Black Gross Boob Death."
  Lois: Breast cancer?
  Dr. Hartmann: That's the layman's term, yes.
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- Lois: Peter, stop that! We're not having sex. I just told you I have a lump.
  Peter: I got a lump too, and mine's easier to get rid of.
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- Peter: But then Jesus, what religion should our family be?
  Jesus: Six of one--they're all complete crap.
  Brian: (off camera) Thank you!
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- Star Wars
  
  Peter asked Francise Griffin to say "Peter, you must go to the Dagobah System", this is from "Star Wars episode five: The Empire Strikes Back" where the ghost of Obi-wan tells Luke Skywalker to seek Yoda in the Dagobah System and Stewie mentions that he feel like he is at the far moon on Endor twice, this is from "Star Wars episode six: Return of the Jedi".
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- Francis: Peter, you must go to the Dagobah system.
  
  Another of many references to the Star Wars series...this time, The Empire Strikes Back.
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- Stewie: Look at all these short, hairy men. God, I feel like I'm on the forest moon of Endor.
  
  Stewie is referencing the Ewoks, made popular in Episode 6 of the Star Wars saga, Return Of The Jedi.
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- The Cleveland Show
  
  Brian mentions that Quagmire thought he was getting the spinoff, only to realize that there was a moving van outside of Cleveland's house.
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- Peter: She's betrayed me worse than Lady Macbeth betrayed Duncan!
  
  Peter references the play Macbeth. However, he also explains that he doesn't know Shakespeare all that well, so he envisions Lady Macbeth fighting a bear on a spaceship.
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- SuperFriends
  
  The opening sequence is done in the style of the animated TV series SuperFriends.
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- Schindler's List
  
  The scene where Peter shoots at Lois then waves the gun behind his back is from the movie Schindler's List, in which Goth does the same thing.
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- Stewie: Kali mah! Kali mah!
  
  Stewie ripping Meg's beating heart out of her chest is a reference to the 1984 movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
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